The best way to stop silly lawsuits is to raise the price of failure.
If hopes are disappointed again, the price of failure will be too high for all.
The price of failure there could cost the Conservatives the keys to 10 Downing Street.
Insured against paying the full price of failure, people may take risks they would otherwise have avoided.
She tried to do the right thing and she failed and the price of failure this time was death.
The recognition of these benefits, and of the price of failure, has brought the launch of a new trade round, which a year ago seemed distant, within sight.
But the price of failure is high.
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But the price of system failure, just like that of inadequate maintenance, would be even more enormous.
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The best way to stop costly frivolous lawsuits is to raise the price of their failure.
Because of the failure to price water properly, factory owners and peasants alike use too much of it.
Traders bought and sold 'future' contracts - an agreement to buy coffee, say, in three months time at a certain price - protecting themselves from the worry that a crop failure might drive up the price of coffee in the intervening months.
On December 10th the boss of Fiat Auto, Roberto Testore, resigned, paying the price for his failure to sort out the problems of the Italian group's car-making business, which staggers from loss to loss even as the European car market booms.
We saw the Sprint price rise on the possible failure of the deal.
Too bad there's no price for failure--except, of course, for the one paid by veteran entrepreneurs.
For starters, consider the fact that the degree of market failure varies from region to region: the difference between the price of water and its true marginal cost must be higher in dry places than wet ones.
So we've seen the consequences of this failure of responsibility, and the American people have paid a heavy price.
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Some may defend the policy as an instance of robust unilateralism, but the failure of the administration's multilateral and regional initiatives was not a price that had to be paid to defend America's interests: on the contrary, those failures directly harm the American economy.
That failure so weakened its stock price and the reputation of its management that NatWest was itself acquired by Royal Bank of Scotland.
As has now become custom with the Tunisian champions, the coach has paid the price for the club's failure to reach the final of the continent's top club competition.
This is an abysmal failure of free market forces to converge the end price with the cost of production.
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The failure of farmers in poor countries to respond to price signals does not mean they are deaf to them.
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Some in the industry say that one reason for the failure of an attempted merger between Arthur Andersen and Price Waterhouse eight years ago was Andersen's disdainful view that a lot of Price Waterhouse's senior partners were dead wood.
Arsenal paid the price for their failure to take the chances they created in periods of domination at Stamford Bridge - and for their continuing inability to contain Drogba as Carlo Ancelotti's champions stretched out a four-point lead over their title rivals.
The Society of Civil Engineers ( Failure to Act Studies) gives its price tag for restoring a first-world infrastructure.
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The point is that for more than 25 years, from the 1970s, the supposed great economic failure of the UK was in its propensity for rapid price rises.
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